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Sea

The Hebrews gave the name of sea to all great collections of water, to great lakes or pools. Thus the sea of Galilee, or of Tiberias, or of Cinnereth, is no other than the lake of Tiberias, or Gennesareth, in Galilee. This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
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  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H3220, H3221, G2281, G3989
Hebrew
יָם
Greek
θάλασσα · thalassa

Strong’s and original-language information

H3220

יָם

Glosses: sea

Indexed occurrences: 339

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

H3221

יַם

Glosses: sea

Indexed occurrences: 2

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G2281

θάλασσα · thalassa

Glosses: sea

θάλασσα, -ης, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for יָם ; ] the sea: Mat. 23:15, Mrk.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

G3989

πέλαγος · pelagos

Glosses: sea

πέλαγος, -ους, τό [in LXX: 2Ma. 5:21, 4Ma. 7:1 * ;

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

H3220

יָם · yâm

Glosses: sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).

a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water

specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea

sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin

locally, the west, or (rarely) the south

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H3221

יָם · yâm

Glosses: sea.

{a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water

specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea

sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin

locally, the west, or (rarely) the south}

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H4813

מִרְיָם · Miryâm

Glosses: Miriam.

Mirjam, the name of two Israelitesses

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H5868

עֲיָם · ʻăyâm

Glosses: mighty.

probably meaning strength

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H7010

קְיָם · qᵉyâm

Glosses: decree, statute.

an edict (as arising in law)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

Complete dictionary entries

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

SEA

The Hebrews gave the name of sea to all great collections of water, to great lakes or pools. Thus the sea of Galilee, or of Tiberias, or of Cinnereth, is no other than the lake of Tiberias, or Gennesareth, in Galilee. The Dead Sea, the sea of the Wilderness, the sea of the East, the sea of Sodom, the sea of Salt, or the Salt Sea, the sea of Asphaltites, or of bitumen, is no other than the lake of Sodom.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

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